Newcastle Railway Station

Joan Dawson is losing count of the people who've made a point of telling her they now believe she was right after all. She says it's nice to hear them say it, but it's small consolation to the woman who was, for years, the face of local resistance to the State-sponsored juggernaut intent on removing Newcastle's heavy rail line. Now, faced with the new reality of public transport in the second city of NSW, many Newcastle people are inwardly revisiting the furious debates over the railway line in the 1990s and 2000s, comparing the promises and…